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That strikes me as a bit odd, as Phil Sturgeon is also in the area.

Software management, on the other hand, has no Sturgeon Filter...

I like Haskell because the compiler itself acts as a Sturgeon Filter.

Software engineers, themselves, willingly run their work through Sturgeon Filters (compilers, test suites) all the time because the job requires a respect for how hard and detailed the work is, and an acceptance of one's own fallibility.

I personally don't know much but from reading replies I think this reply [0] by Philip Sturgeon might give the most insight: > I do not accept this.

Indeed there was a joke around the time of the election that many in England would have voted for Sturgeon if they could have; it seemed grounded in some reality, as most jokes are.

That doesn't mean every little library is a good one (Sturgeon's Law applies - 90% of everything is crap), but it does mean that being "official" is usually a negative signal on product quality.

Even if you cut out the crappy 90% as per Sturgeon's law, the remaining 10% has so much variation that you couldn't possibly pick out "the best" to any measurable degree — especially when you consider the fact that, historically speaking, most of the best (read: most influential) art pushed the boundary of the medium in some way.

If the complaint is about quality, I'll refer you to Sturgeon's law.

Helps filter out incompetent but slick sales types (after all, Sturgeon's Law also holds for businessmen).

Sturgeon's Law/Revelation, has been a great comfort to me when I look back over my side projects and writing.